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Re: help with appending strings [message #89296 is a reply to message #89294]

Thu, 14 August 2014 11:51

Craig Markwardt
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Registered: November 1996

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On Thursday, August 14, 2014 2:42:02 PM UTC-4, g.na...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi all
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> So far I was working with 1 pair of stings (total=2 strings) but now I need to work with 180 pairs (total=360 strings). I define my two strings as shown below:
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> 1 = 'C:\Users\string1'
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> 2 = 'C:\Users\string2'
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> procedure....
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> Because now I need to define 360 strings I was wondering if I can write a loop instead of defined this like this.

Yes you can. Try making an array of strings,
dirs = ['C:\Users\string1', 'C:\Users\string2', 'C:\Users\string3']

And then loop through the strings and operate on them.
for i = 0, n_elements(dirs)-1 do begin
dir = dirs[i]
;; operate on DIR
endfor

Craig

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		help with appending strings By: g.nacarts on Thu, 14 August 2014 11:42
		Re: help with appending strings By: Matthew Argall on Thu, 14 August 2014 11:49
		Re: help with appending strings By: Craig Markwardt on Thu, 14 August 2014 11:51
		Re: help with appending strings By: g.nacarts on Thu, 14 August 2014 12:06
		Re: help with appending strings By: g.nacarts on Thu, 14 August 2014 12:51
		Re: help with appending strings By: Phillip Bitzer on Thu, 14 August 2014 17:16

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